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On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 11:14:18AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> I would just revert this commit from kernels earlier than 4.15; this
> %p usage is in debugging, so %pK doesn't make much sense here.

Yes, just drop it. That's only for debugging alternatives and not really
needed in stable.

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